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Who else has DARE in their classrooms? I have taught 5th grade for over 10 years and have done both the longer (18 lessons) and revised (10 lessons) DARE. We just finished our 10 lessons, with a DARE trained police officer, and I have two questions. First - The DARE book has LOTS of writing responses in it. Do you all have your kids write the responses to every situation? My kids seem to think the situation responses get a little old (I do too, but I don't let them see it). Are there options to completing each situation - like acting them out or presenting a poster? Second - Is the 7 paragraph essay a requirement? Does every DARE program require a 7 paragraph essay or does it just depend on the police officer?

I do like it when our DARE Officer comes into our class - the kids like him and it is someone different coming into the classroom to teach besides me....my teammate and I are just wondering about all the writing and if different schools do it differently. ...See More
ny/5 We don't have to teach DARE -- the DARE officer does it all, and there is an essay due at the end -- it's a requirement to attend DARE graduation.

On 3/28/09, Sam wrote: > Hi > > Who else has DARE in their classrooms? I have taught 5th > grade for over 10 years and have done both the longer (18 > lessons) and revised (10 les...See More
Mar 28, 2009
ml/5/ny Hi, We just recently finished our 10 DARE lessons and the DARE officer comes into the class and does all the teaching. He gave them homework each night and the next session he would go over it. I don't really look at the books at all. At the end, they have the essay to write. We choose 2 per class and that give 8 kids reading their essays at the gr...See More
Mar 28, 2009


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